2016
DOI: 10.1177/0973174116666441
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The Political Economy of Intergovernmental Transfers—Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief

Abstract: India’s National Calamity Contingency Fund (NCCF) is a discretionary federal grant that supports the sub-national governments with their disaster relief efforts. Evidence suggests that discretionary intergovernmental transfers in countries with national coalition governments contribute to distributive politics. Coalition formateur(s) use these transfers to form or hold together fractious coalitions. We use data on the NCCF from 1997 to 2013 for 23 Indian states to test for distributive politics. Our results sh… Show more

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“…Similarly, Gallego (2018) finds that Colombian political elites took advantage of severe floods and landslides to exchange immediate relief for votes. Nonetheless, not all studies point out to such electorally oriented strategies of postdisaster-aid distribution, as Kumar (2016) posits for the case of India.…”
Section: What Is the Political Role Of Disaster-relief Policies?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Similarly, Gallego (2018) finds that Colombian political elites took advantage of severe floods and landslides to exchange immediate relief for votes. Nonetheless, not all studies point out to such electorally oriented strategies of postdisaster-aid distribution, as Kumar (2016) posits for the case of India.…”
Section: What Is the Political Role Of Disaster-relief Policies?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…No contexto das declarações de emergência e do envio de transferências federais emergenciais, estudos sugerem que, apesar de os desastres naturais serem exógenos, a reação ao desastre é de controle dos gestores. Dessa forma, o envio dos recursos pode ter caráter político, além de ser um dos instrumentos usados pelo Executivo federal para enfraquecer a oposição e reforçar a posição política dos seus copartidários e apoiadores sistemáticos (Downton e Pielke, 2001;Stehr, 2006;Reeves, 2011;Kriner e Reeves, 2015;Kumar, 2016). Dessa forma, buscamos aqui identificar se o reconhecimento federal da situação de emergência e as transferências emergenciais são usadas politicamente através da discriminação sistemática entre governo e oposição.…”
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